This is what I have to work with....

[IR35 Avoider]

Was in Rome recently and every single toilet I went to in cafes/bars etc had no knobs to turn the tap on for washing hands. I thought they were all automatic ones that just didn't work. Then I looked down in one of them and it had a pad you stood on which turned on the water. Very hygienic, they should have that everywhere.

Starting my first job after leaving university, corporate HQ was a luxurious new building (had six-storey high atrium with waterfall and palm trees) and in the gents (ankle deep carpets and extremely dim lighting) I had to wait for someone to show me how to turn on the water. I assumed there was something in the floor and was tapping all over the place, but turned out just to be a motion sensor, which in 1986 was something I'd never encountered before.

[JoJoGabor]

We thought our electric windows had failed. It was less embarrassing than it might have been, since it took the mechanic a few minutes to realise we'd pressed the button (which we never knew existed) to disable them.

This happened to me too, although it happened when the car had been in the garage and I took the car back ranting at their incompetency at breaking the electric windows when repairing a leaky radiator. He calmly walked over to the car, pressed the switched and said "Try now".

I felt like a right t1t.

[JoJoGabor]

Another angry accusation I did was on a road trip with a really bad hangover. Every time I looked ay my new ipod the screen looked cracked, and I asked angrily who had broken my ipod. But then when I went to a shop it was fine again. Back in the car it was broken. Very confusing!!!

After about 2 hours of this happening I realised it was my polarised sunglasses made the screen looked cracked.

Again, very embarassing

[dack]

Some lady in the office has just discovered she has some lights in her kitchen 7 years after moving in.

Apparently they were under unit lights and although the switch was next to the main light switch she didn't press it for seven years and never wondered what it did.


FFS!

Class.

It is a treat when you get to sit next to normal, non techie folk and ear wig their conversastions.

I once overheard two ladies behind me having a lenghty conversation on arranging to bring in some hair tongs for one to lend to the other. After 10 minutes of detailed logistical planing, a fellow contractor sitting next to me put his head in his hands and says aloud "Somebody shoot me!!!".